Digital History and Information Systems
About
The department “Digital History and Information Systems” works at the interface of research and infrastructure.
The work areas of the department include:
- Supervising and developing the Herder Institute’s IT infrastructure
- Support in the areas of research data management and IT for all projects
- Qualification of employees
- Establishment and operation of digital research infrastructures
- Integration and expansion of online services
- Bundling of the institute’s activities in the Digital Humanities
The department has the following work areas
- System support IT
- Digital research infrastructures
- Research Data Management
Service
We offer individual support and workshops on topics including:
- Open Access
- Research Data Management
- Metadata
- Software deployment in projects
- Hardware procurement and deployment
Projects
NFDI4Memory: Konsortium für historisch arbeitende Geisteswissenschaften
Task Area 1: Data Quality
2023-2028
Copernico. Onlineportal Geschichte und kulturelles Erbe im östlichen Europa
2019-2022
OstData – Forschungsdatendienst für die Ost-, Ostmittel- und Südosteuropaforschung
2019-2022
Semantics4Art&Architecture
Konsolidierung einer nachhaltigen Forschungsinfrastruktur für die ontologiebasierte
Dokumentation und Erschließung von Kunst und Architektur
2018-2021
Internships
It is possible to complete an unpaid internship in the Digital History and Information Systems department. During an internship, work packages in a research area or project should be independently processed. Examples of this can be found below. The time required for an internship depends, among other things, on previous experience in the respective subject area.
Please apply with a CV in tabular form and a short letter of motivation in which you refer to the project or field of work in which you are interested. Please also mention any relevant experience and previous knowledge (e.g. software, programming, paleography skills, internships in related fields). Our team will be happy to answer any further questions (e.g. possible starting times) at the email addresses provided!
Research Data Management (RDM)
Required skills and competencies: from the bachelor’s level
Possible tasks: supporting the development of workshop and consulting materials for training in RDM
Minimum duration: 4 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with a one-page cover letter & CV): fdm@herder-institut.de
Project „NFDI4Memory: The Consortium for the Historically Oriented Humanities”
Required skills and competencies: from the bachelor’s level
Possible tasks: Support with the preparation of events and project management
Minimum duration: 4 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with a one-page cover letter & CV): fdm@herder-institut.de
Automated text recognition, enrichment and evaluation using machine learning methods
Required skills and competencies: from the bachelor’s level
Possible tasks:
- Creation of training and evaluation data (including digitization, transcription, annotation; (further) development of the associated guidelines)
- Training and evaluation of models and their fine-tuning/domain adaptation
- Testing and use of tools such as eScriptorium, OCR4all, Loghi etc.
Minimum duration: 2 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with a one-page cover letter & CV): fdm@herder-institut.de
Telegram Crawler
Required skills and competencies: basic knowledge of Python
Possible tasks:
- Conducting and evaluation of thematic crawls
- Data evaluation and visualization (e.g. using NLP methods such as topic modeling, network analysis with Gephi or other tools, assuming relevant experience)
- Testing storage and retrieval methods (databases, knowledge graphs, etc.); further development of the crawler
Minimum duration: 4 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with a one-page cover letter & CV): fdm@herder-institut.de
Automatic text analysis
Required skills and competencies: basic knowledge in linguistics (word types, morphology, syntax), experience with mark-up languages (e.g. XML). from the bachelor’s level
Possible tasks:
- Creation of annotated text corpora
- Analysis of texts with computational linguistics tools (e.g. information extraction, topic modeling, statistical analysis)
- Evaluation of different computational linguistics tools for multiple languages or text types.
Minimum duration: 4 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with a one-page cover letter & CV): Dr. Cristina Vertan (cristina.vertan@herder-institut.de)
Internship at the editorial office of the Copernico Portal
Required skills and competencies: an affinity for writing and texts and an interest in creating online content; initial experience in the field of science communication, journalism, image and video editing is helpful
Possible tasks: scientific editing and proofreading, entering articles and portal content into the content management systems, creating accompanying texts, supporting social media work, preparing the publication of multimedia content, etc.
Minimum duration: 4 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with CV and one-page cover letter): Dr. Antje Johanning-Radžienė (antje.johanning@herder-institut.de)
Internship in the editorial office of the “Historical Thesaurus”
Required skills and competencies: a strong affinity for conceptual and terminological work; previous experience in relevant areas of subject-based indexing or annotation is helpful
Possible tasks: editing term records in the Thesaurus, including: identifying suitable terms and term corpora according to subject-specific and formal criteria; researching and creating terms, designations and definitions; researching and evaluating specialist literature; aligning and mapping with national and international reference vocabularies.
The internship includes training in the theory and practice of standards-based controlled vocabularies.
Minimum duration: 6 weeks
Ask questions & apply (with CV and one-page cover letter): Felix Köther (felix.koether@herder-institut.de)
